Automation Engineer at Adexen

Job Reference: 1362
Location: Aba, Abuja and Kano.
Function: Engineering

Job Description

• Responsible for planning activities aimed at supporting and helping the maintenance of the automated systems and connected instruments
• Take part in building up of a system for standardization of the equipment and to control its fulfillment
• Participate in analyzing of data on failures that arise and to propose measures for preventing them occurring in the future
• Designate and maintain the program back up of the automation systems in the assigned factory
• Take part in accepting and commissioning of new automated systems
• Designate and conduct activities for preventing breakdowns in the automated systems
• Prepare work instructions concerning the exploitation of the automated systems and the working instructions for the staff in general
• Translate process ideas and requirements into an automation concept with special attention to the analyses of the requested project and the definition and set-up of a programming structure
• Define and support standardization of process software and hardware
• Participate in or lead safety analyses

Expectations

• HND/B.Sc in Electrical/Electronics Engineering
• Minimum of 3 years experience on Automation in a Manufacturing Industry (bottling, cement, food industry).
• Automation experience should cover continuous process control as well as FMCG machines
• Ability to read, understand and to produce Electrical drawings
• Sound knowledge of S5 & S7 Siemens PLC
• PLC programming, data acquisition, Calibration and Human Machine Interface for all electronics equipments like EBI, Cobrix , FBI, Date Coding Machine
• Ability to write and maintain program backups
• Knowledge of Electrical Drawings & Power Distribution
• Ability to develop a maintenance program for all instrumentation and electronics equipment and components
• Exposure to SIDEL PET machines and Beverage Industry
• Ability to understand and analyse unstructured and not documented PLC software programmes, and the ability to structure and/or comment this software.
• Ability to prepare a software specification based on operational formulated requirements, and the ability to translate.